2.3 billion for shitty, over-marketed pain killers*
what an extraordinary amount of money, i wonder how on earth they can pay that?
an equation:
birth control (yasmin) = $25 dollars / month
x 12 months = $300 / year / 1 person
Females 18+ on the island of NYC: 570,065.5
(minus the over 65 crowd, I would hope they no longer need to ingest birth control, not for lack of sexual activity, just because their reproductive wells have long since craggled)
x $25 dollars (or one month's worth of birth control) = $ 14,251,637.5
x 12 months = the possibility of generating $171,019,650 / year in NYC alone
Current female population of the United States = approximately 152,029,862 women.
x $25 dollars (one month of BC) = 3,800,746,550 or almost 4 billion dollars if every American woman ingested this particular form of birth control for 1 month.
PS, the pull-out method is 88% effective, says Planned Parenthood, and decidedly free of charge.
*The FDA approved Bextra to treat arthritis as well as menstrual pain in very
limited doses. Kopchinski alleged in his qui tam lawsuit -- which the
government joined -- that Pfizer promoted Bextra for uses and in doses that
far exceeded what the FDA had approved. This put patients at risk for serious
health problems such as heart attack, stroke and pulmonary embolism (blood
clot in the lung). The lawsuit also said that Bextra paid doctors kickbacks in
various ways to influence them to prescribe and endorse Bextra for these
"off-label" uses. Bextra was withdrawn from the market in 2005.
